Nothing keeps you absolutely safe. Thats the unfortunate fact of life. We are live this morning as the medicare board of trustees is meeting to look at what Congress Plans to do on medicare and medicaid coverage. This is live coverage. Its just getting underway. My name is joe and im in Health Care Retirement policy at aei. I will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. Perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook as they said in their summary, a major concern has to do with the growth of Health Care Innovation which has positives and negatives. The positive is that with modern technology and modern techniques we are able to address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we have in the past. While most technological advances have tended new the Health Care Landscape is shifting. No one knows if it will inkrocre or decrease costs. Let me also sight a critical point that the truste
Commissioners paskinjordan and stansbury one up here today can we do please take roll call cohen speak, here. Bridges, here. Driscoll, here. Makras. Mdm. Clerk its time for close session open up or Public Comment on our close session items. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. At this time [gavel] thank you we will resume at in 15 min. At 2 30 pm. Excuse me. Good afternoon. We are going to take a motioncan come out of close session and make a motion not to discuss what we discussed in close chat session. Is there a motion . [inaudible] [off mic] not just us what was [inaudible] motion has been made by commissioner bridges and second by commissioner cohen we can take that without objection. Thank you. Clerkfirst i want to thank the public for allowing us a few more minutes. Your time is important and i want to recognize that. Thank you for being flexible and honoring our request. I would like to go to item number four mdm. Clerk and you call that for me . Item 4 general public on ive
Cohen speak, here. Bridges, here. Driscoll, here. Makras. Mdm. Clerk its time for close session open up or Public Comment on our close session items. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. At this time [gavel] thank you we will resume at in 15 min. At 2 30 pm. Excuse me. Good afternoon. We are going to take a motioncan come out of close session and make a motion not to discuss what we discussed in close chat session. Is there a motion . [inaudible] [off mic] not just us what was [inaudible] motion has been made by commissioner bridges and second by commissioner cohen we can take that without objection. Thank you. Clerkfirst i want to thank the public for allowing us a few more minutes. Your time is important and i want to recognize that. Thank you for being flexible and honoring our request. I would like to go to item number four mdm. Clerk and you call that for me . Item 4 general public on ive one public card. If theres anyone us dont like to speak these, not or one or i pool not to
Cohen president of the retirement board this of the regular scheduled full board meeting. The purpose of the board [inaudible] please join me and rising raising your right hand over your heart and saying the budget of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you. Clerk any announcement . Commissioners paskinjordan and stansbury one up here today can we do please take roll call cohen speak, here. Bridges, here. Driscoll, here. Makras. Mdm. Clerk its time for close session open up or Public Comment on our close session items. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. At this time [gavel] thank you we will resume at in 15 min. At 2 30 pm. Excuse me. Good afternoon. We are going to take a motioncan come out of close session and make a motion not to discuss what we discussed in close chat session. Is there a motion . [inaudible] [off mic] not just us what was [inaudible] motion has been made by commissioner bridges and second by commissioner cohen we can take that without objection. Thank you.
And stansbury one up here today can we do please take roll call cohen speak, here. Bridges, here. Driscoll, here. Makras. Mdm. Clerk its time for close session open up or Public Comment on our close session items. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. At this time [gavel] thank you we will resume at in 15 min. At 2 30 pm. Excuse me. Good afternoon. We are going to take a motioncan come out of close session and make a motion not to discuss what we discussed in close chat session. Is there a motion . [inaudible] [off mic] not just us what was [inaudible] motion has been made by commissioner bridges and second by commissioner cohen we can take that without objection. Thank you. Clerkfirst i want to thank the public for allowing us a few more minutes. Your time is important and i want to recognize that. Thank you for being flexible and honoring our request. I would like to go to item number four mdm. Clerk and you call that for me . Item 4 general public on ive one public card. If theres